re: Most dangerous moment while hunting or fishing?

Yeah it's definitely a weird feeling. The only way I can describe it is the open palm to the forehead. Not even a hit. More like if you placed your hand there and then pushed your head back real fast and blacked out at the same instant.

I had this old climbing stand right when I first starting hunting and it was horrible about slipping. This one time I was on the edge of this cutover and it slipped, but only one side of it slipped and it almost threw me out the side. By the grace of God I held on. I quickly jimmied my way down the tree and sat on a stump the rest of the hunt. Safely on the ground.

Along with the other lightening stories, when we were kids at my friends house we thought it would be cool to go out in the yard during the storm. It wasn't really raining hard so we were goofing off on his vollyball court when lightening hit a tree in his back yard. None of us could hear for a while after that.

Fishing the Red with a buddy of mine in my 15ft Jon boat out of Bishops. We went up river and cut through the jetty to this stump field and fished for a while. While we were fishing it was getting windy and the skies were getting dark, but inside the jetty the waters were calm. We eventually worked our way back close to the rocks so we could see over into the main river and it was white cappin like hell. In our infinite teenage minds that was the sign to get the hell out. So out into the river we went with that 25 tiller handle wot. It didnt take long for us to realize that if we kept up we'd die. I had to basically idle right up against the jetty in a downpour that made it hard to see my buddy in the front of the boat.

At our deer camp we have one giant box stand called the "penthouse". It's big enough to have a stairway going up to it. Problem is you obviously can't bow hunt out of it.

SO, my cousin and I get a bunch of 2X8's and stretch them across some support beams and create a platform underneath the box stand and then wrap netting around the legs of the stand to create a blind. Our redneck bow stand is a good 20 feet up, and the platform is probably about 5 by 7 feet.

I hunt it one day, sitting in a chair, and in an instant the back legs of my chair slip between two of the 2X8s, and I roll back. Next thing I know the chair falls to the ground I have one heel on the platform and I've got a death grip on a tree limb behind the platform.

I stayed in that position for like 2 minutes while it registered what exactly just happened. It was one of the moments that got scarier the more I thought about it.

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Another time, me and a buddy got the bright idea to fish behind the breakers, so we take to climb it, I walked up, stepped into the eddy prior to the breaker and hit my knee on the rock. Not thinking anything of it, I pull my leg out of the water and see that I'm bleeding like a stuck pig. I go back to shore and clean my wound and start debating on whether I should call it a day (6am) and go get stitches. It was probably a borderline case, but I ended up deciding to stay out and being shark bait the rest of the day. Ended up pretty well, ended up catching about a dozen trout and a cooler full of crabs.

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I'm more worried about flesh-eating bacteria than sharks in that situation.